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SHOOT-OUT AT RAND BANK TWO DEAD ROBBERY LINKED TO O B The letters OBcaught Sarah Stander's eye on the placard outside the news-stand. They set up their primitive camp in the sheer bank of the river-bed atthe point where the telegraph line took the short cut across the loop inthe road. projectile stream, bringing upher terror and shame and guilt, heaving and retching until her stomachwas e He screamed and clutched the maimed hand to his chest, trying to staunchthe spurt of bright blood.

Shasa thrust his hands into his pockets andwith slumped shoulders went to find his tutor. ThePower of the Sword follows them through two decades of South Africanhistory in an epic story of life-long l Our economy is tottering on the brink, the gold-mining industry is injeopardy. And now, the general roused them from where theysprawled, satiated, on the bank of the tiny burbling stream, land nowfor the main business of the day.